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U.S. MILITARY TELEGRAPH
810 am
Recd Dec 17th 1867.
10 Me By Telegraph from New Orleans Dec 18 1867. 
To Bvt Brig Gen. 
E. Whittlesey
AAAG
No cases of actual starvation reported but owing to the overflow & failure of crops throughout the state much suffering is anticipated among both whites & blacks. Whites as well as freedpeople will in the majority of cases realize nothing from their years labor
WW Wood
Lt Col & AC

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